How to Use olden in a Sentence

olden

adjective

• What was life like in the olden days?
• In olden times, sailors used the frayed end of a rope dipped in saltwater.
  — Michael E. Ruane, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Mar. 2020
• But now One Chicago bar is taking the Mai Tai back to the olden days.
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 17 Apr. 2023
• When dinner was over, the kids left the house and went outside to play, which is something children did in the olden days.
  — Lisa Scottoline, Philly.com, 24 June 2017
• This wasn’t a problem back in olden times, when the setting of the sun ended light exposure for the day.
  — Brian Resnick, Vox, 27 Apr. 2018
• In ye olden days of 2012, e-books were often cheaper than hard copies.
  — Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 26 May 2023
• David, Don Quixote lived in olden times, when people were very strict about the kind of stories that were allowed to be told.
  — J. M. Coetzee, Harper's Magazine, 27 Apr. 2020
• Prefer learning about the, ahem, saucier side of olden times?
  — Jenna Schnuer, Anchorage Daily News, 28 June 2021
• That myth also implies that the unions that emerged in those olden times are no longer necessary.
  — David Scott Witwer, Quartz, 5 Dec. 2019
• Yes, a long time ago was a decade when the coolest thing a girl could have was a collection of dolls with outfits and books designed to teach them about the olden days.
  — Maura Judkis, Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2023
• However, the cost of living has risen in Seattle since the olden days, and these jokers are making about the same salary.
  — Lincee Ray, EW.com, 5 May 2023
• In ye olden days, a lord or lady might wear a locket holding an image of their beloved or a ring made of a lock of their lover's hair.
  — Elizabeth Logan, Teen Vogue, 18 Jan. 2018
• The handmade crystal decanter is designed around the shape of a ‘dirk,’ a Scottish dagger of olden times.
  — Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2023
• Which is why Angelina Jolie's Tomb Raider (circa ye olden days of 2001) will always have a place in our hearts.
  — Mehera Bonner, Marie Claire, 27 Mar. 2017
• Which is why Angelina Jolie's Tomb Raider (circa ye olden days of 2001) will always have a place in our hearts.
  — Mehera Bonner, Marie Claire, 27 Mar. 2017
• In the olden, more golden days of Hollywood, there were 50 shades of the often-sappy staple.
  — Andrea Mandell, USA TODAY, 7 Sep. 2017
• The Cesar salad is served tableside in a throwback to the olden, golden days.
  — Liza B. Zimmerman, Forbes, 12 Nov. 2021
• Like Potter or Mason in olden times, terms like Googlers and Vimeans are used today to connect people to their jobs.
  — Leslie Shapiro, Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2023
• De Angeli’s light use of olden-day language is lilting and skillful, giving color and depth to the tale.
  — Sarah Schutte, National Review, 20 June 2021
• Taylor has been designing for the company since back in ye olden days of 2009.
  — Mehera Bonner, Marie Claire, 23 Aug. 2017
• In olden times, the only human pastimes were A) reading books and B) staring at the sky and wondering if a cloud looked like a cow or a duck.
  — Jason Gay, WSJ, 14 Jan. 2022
• After all, the Silver Sixties of the olden days pale in comparison to the transcendent ’90s of the golden days.
  — Mike Bianchi, OrlandoSentinel.com, 13 Aug. 2017
• Think of it like battle orders delivered in olden times.
  — Lily Hay Newman, Wired, 18 June 2021
• His evocations of the olden days give a golden cast to his characters, whose lives, like Pa’s, sound bleaker than Conover seems to want to acknowledge.
  — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2022
• The vast quantity of fruit produced in Greece proved overwhelming in olden times, when trade was slow or nonexistent.
  — John Malathronas, CNN, 13 Apr. 2021
• In olden times, Sandler movies would open reasonably well in theaters, then enjoy a long life on pay TV and other platforms.
  — Brian Lowry, CNN, 14 June 2019
• Because in the olden days, most neurotics didn’t smoke a ton of pot, at least not on the East Coast, because the schwaggy old Mexican weed available there was an enemy to the jittery.
  — Heather Havrilesky, The Cut, 27 June 2017
• Effectively, The Players’ Tribune has found a way to simulate the access of olden times by putting control in the hands of the wealthy and attractive subjects.
  — Amos Barshad, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2018
• As in the olden days of radio, casting is unrelated to physical type, age or even gender.
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2021
• Olden days and sweet thoughts do not come naturally to me, and this long reach back to the Ringling Bros. is, perhaps, only an attempt to escape the greater shows on Earth that now envelop us.
  — Roger Angell, The New Yorker, 1 June 2017

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024